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Wall Schools Super Slated To Become Colts Neck High Principal

Daniel Simon's appointment awaits Monday vote of Freehold Regional High School District school board.

Daniel Simon, current Wall Township Schools Superintendent, is slated to leave the embattled school district to join the Freehold Regional High School District, according to the high school district’s Board of Education meeting agenda

Simon, who joined Wall Township schools just more than a year ago, is to become the Principal of Colts Neck High School, according to the agenda. A vote on his appointment is scheduled for Monday’s board meeting.

Simon, should he get board approval Monday, will be paid $155,221 for the Colts Neck job – $12,279 less than his annual $166,500 paycheck in Wall Township.

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Simon on Sunday confirmed that he plans to leave the Wall district, pending the Freehold Regional school board vote, but he declined to comment further before the board vote.

Simon’s potential departure comes less than a week after Sandra Brower, a former Wall Township School District assistant superintendent, was indicted by a grand jury on charges she lied to police about a possible sexual assault at the district’s Primary School.

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Brower in Superior Court pleaded not guilty to the three-count indictment later that same day.  On Friday, Brower, who is the current superintendent of Lacey Schools in Ocean County, was placed on unpaid leave by that school board pending the outcome of her legal battle.

Simon’s arrival in the Wall Township School district signaled a changing of the guard in the district following the retirement of former Superintendent James F. Habel and several of his closest allies in the district administration, including Brower.

Habel’s home was later raided by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. No charges have been filed against Habel.

Prior to his appointment in Wall, Simon spent the last 10 years leading High Tech high, which consistently ranks among the top high schools in the nation.

Simon, of Freehold Township, holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Dayton, Ohio; a master’s degree in mathematics education from The College of New Jersey and a master's in educational leadership from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is working on his doctorate from Liberty University, according to his online resume.

Simon served as chair of the Summit Public School's Mathematics Department for 10 months beginning in Sept. 2001, and Mathematics Supervisor for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Public Schools from July 1999 to Aug. 2001, his resume says.

Prior to that, Simon was chair of the Ewing Public Schools Mathematics Department for a year, beginning 1998. He spent six years with the East Brunswick Public Schools as a math teacher beginning in 1992, according to the resume.

Simon, 43, was born in East Brunswick, one of seven children. He has six children of his own and has been active throughout his life in theatre and recently retired as a Cub master for a Cub Scout troop.

Simon also has taught classes in several colleges, including Monmouth, Kean, Farleigh Dickenson University, Rutgers, Middlesex Community College, DeVry IT, and Walden University, the biography says.


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